My compadre got himself stuck!

On the Ashweig winter road, I crossed the ice bridge and I think Gerry tried to jump it.

He was well in the rhubarb. We got shovelling and hooked him to the back of my trailer so I could start yanking at it.

After much effort, we got him level, then we shovelled and tugged some more.

After 4 hours we finally got him out.

Fantastic bit of work :open_mouth:

I’m amazed that you got that unstuck without ‘outside’ help. Very impressive!

Well done ,Bob. Who took the snaps?

Brilliant photos Bob, please keep sending them in. :smiley: :

Exellent bit of work there getting that out,

Well done chaps

Keep the pics coming please BTD

I took them in between tugs and dugs, Harry. Took us four hours on that one, eleven hours later in the week when I was stuck at the top, Gerry was stuck halfway up and Jeff was stuck at the bottom, (along with a grader and a loader).

That was a fun day!

My “stuck”

Gerrys “stuck”

Jeff and the loaders “stuck”

The graders “stuck” but he had already managed to get me free by this point.

We had to cut a tree down to get the loader out. You can see Gerrys arm at the top of the cab leaning on the tree and that’s Wendel leaning on a very skinny shovel.

Then we used that to clear the snow behind Gerry and Jeff to give them somewhere to go when they were pulled backwards as there was no way on earth they were coming out forwards. It was dark by then so no pics, but this was the beastie that finally pulled them free. You wouldn’t believe it unless you saw it. This thing was awesome!!

fantastic pictures bob please keep em coming.

It looks like a tiger on Vaseline ,Bob . You certainly won’t put on weight with all that exercise ,thats for sure . I myself am a loner ; looks like I would have to break that habit in the county of Alaska . Maybe I could make a living selling shovels…? :laughing: Stay safe ,Bob.


Got the Mo-Jo working again…

Fantastic photo,s although it does look like the M11 a few years ago :laughing:

thanks, cool pics…

thanks bob for the great photos
and description of the problems
and how you solved them,

Some good auto & eps & new generation gearboxes on Euro units would be in that sort of environment :laughing:
Interesting pics Bob

Just a little :question: Bob In my couple of visits to the States I noticed that a lot of the trailers seem to have their axles set well back as in your pics,exscuse my ignorance Is there a reason for it :question:
The (roads) you were on would definitely have been easier with our type of trailer although not much :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

The axles are set at a point 41’ from the kingpin, which is the general bridge limit. The 53’ trailers have sliding bogies which can make it longer or shorter, but some states have limits so we generally leave them be.

Triaxles would be a nightmare on the winter roads as they drag a bit more.